The release of "Red Dawn" immediately achieved a huge response.

As soon as the film was over, those film critics rushed back to write out the film reviews one by one and send them to newspapers, magazines, and so on. They were all shocked by the special effects of this movie, and even the most critical people have to say that this is a landmark movie.

The New York Times said in the paper: "DreamWorks has invested a lot of resources in the special effects of 'Red Dawn' to create a realistic and gorgeous gunfight action movie." ”

In its magazine, FilmWeekly said: "The film took a lot of time to build an emotional foundation. Thankfully, this content plays a good role in the action scenes and climactic scenes that follow. ”

The Chicago Sun-Times newspaper said: "Alex has made another breakthrough in this film! It's a pretty tense and exciting adventure movie that will keep you engrossed in the movie from start to finish. ”

The San Francisco Chronicle, in its next day's paper, said, "It's a pretty good, very ambitious, satisfying movie." Alex tries to tell us what the future may happen through this film! ”

The Washington Post said in the paper: "The Chinese-American actor Bruce Lee is a colorful villain, handsome, extremely confident, but at the same time a polite sadist who kicks the actor who plays the secretary of defense around as if she were a feather shuttlecock." ”

Some people like it, some people dislike it, and there are always some people who like to grandstand. "Alex's 'Red Dawn' wasn't interesting at all, on the contrary, it quickly made people feel bored, disgusted and depressed. ”

It's a small local newspaper that hasn't been paid much attention to before, but it's been going viral since it once published the gossip news about Alex and Brigitte. Since then, this small newspaper has been talking nonsense about some incidents, and some people have really bought it.

Fortunately, most of the media have a good attitude, and they all think that it is a good movie, and the plot is intense. Makes for a wonderful storyline. After watching it, it will make the audience's hearts boil with national nationalist sentiments.

Of course, Alex's cleverly arranged network elements are also unconsciously accepted by people. Based on this film, Computer magazine described a beautiful era full of networks, and declared: "If it weren't for the existence of the Internet." The terrorists in the film have already set off a nuclear explosion. And make it impossible for the protagonist to prevent the tragedy from happening! ”

Ordinary people focus their minds on the storyline, whether the gunfight action is exciting, etc. Experts and professors are very interested in the science and technology shown in the film, and some people continue to research and publish relevant articles to discuss the possibility of realizing various technologies in it.

Especially Alex has already arranged for the public knowledge. Not long after the film was released, they began to talk about the importance of the "Internet", which plays a key role in the formation of the US nuclear umbrella.

At the same time, some people are frightened by the dangers of war depicted in the film. They have asked the government to be vigilant so that the Soviet Union or other countries will not take advantage of it, resulting in the killing of the president and the loss of the nuclear bomb code, etc.

The effect came out little by little, and people from the US government, the Pentagon, and others also watched the film, coupled with the public relations lobbying sent by Alex, which made them feel that it was better to build a "Skynet".

At least with the existence of "Skynet", it is impossible for the Soviet Union to destroy the United States at once, and unless they are willing to risk the idea of ending up together, there will be no nuclear war.

"Is that Skynet really that powerful?" Someone asked.

Experts immediately appeared to say, pointing out the "Skynet" function in the film, how it links all nuclear bombs, how to carry out nuclear counterattacks, and so on. Gradually, not only ordinary Americans agreed with this approach, but even government officials believed that it was necessary to establish a "Skynet" as soon as possible.

At the same time, all of a sudden, there was a news report that "the Soviets were starting to work on a similar technique, and they wanted to link the entire Soviet Union with nuclear warheads through a huge network." ”

As soon as this news was reported, it immediately caused an earth-shattering wave. The leaders of some countries specifically confirmed the truth of the news to the Soviet side, but the Soviet officials have been silent about it.

Silent! That's the default!

The Americans are even more panicked, if the Soviets come to them again, then in the near future, the Soviets will rule the earth, and even the situation in the film "Red Dawn" may be realized.

This time, many people couldn't sit still.

"How much money the Ark company needs, we have to try to meet them! We had to get our network out before the USSR. An American general in the Pentagon said to others that his view was shared by many.

Not only are people in the military panicking, but experts and politicians are even more flustered.

They changed their attitude from the beginning and chased the people of the Ark Company to ask about the conditions for the realization of Internet technology. It provides a variety of preferential policies and large sums of money, and the only purpose is to roll out the network as soon as possible.

The first tranche of money was quickly disbursed, and the money alone was $40 million to speed up the research!

This surprised Noyce, Moore and others at the same time, and at the same time exhilarating. Suddenly, everyone burst into great enthusiasm for work.

Immediately afterward, the Pentagon also allocated $30 million for the Ark to develop a "strategic command system" that could be linked to each other. This kind of money is simply like giving it away for nothing, because the current network technology of the Ark Company is enough to meet their needs, but through the telephone line or through optical fiber, it depends on the actual situation.

At this time, AT&T, which had been watching from the sidelines for a long time, jumped out, and they clamored to cooperate with Ark to engage in networking. The conditions given are also much better than the first opening, and the dominant power will also be the Ark Company. Only this time Alex was reluctant to cooperate with them.

So AT&T lobbied the government and the military that fiber optic networks were too expensive and not practical enough. Or use the existing telephone line, which is both cost-effective and fast.

Regarding such behavior, Alex first pointed out: "No matter what kind of network technology, it is already a patent owned by Ark. No one else has the right to use these patented techniques unless they develop a new one, but you can imagine the amount of time it takes. ”

Immediately afterwards, Alex made a big fuss about the confidentiality of information, and he had been prepared for this for a long time. Throw out various data for comparison.

"Of course, it has to be done through a fiber optic network. The phone line is so inconvenient! And the secrecy is not high enough, it is very likely that the Soviets will steal the secrets from it, or intercept our signal halfway! ”

Alex's rhetoric left the military with no choice. What they fear most is the leakage of information. Once the Soviet Union got hold of military secrets. It's like stripping naked and dancing in front of people. There is no sense of security at all.

"No matter how expensive it is, you have to ensure the confidentiality of information and data!" In the end, the military bosses decided that fiber optic networks were their preferred solution. As for the civilian version, they don't care. You can use whatever you like, as long as the military's lines are safe.

With the support of government departments and the military, the R&D progress of Ark and Optical Giant has advanced by leaps and bounds, various problems have been broken through, the network speed has been greatly improved, and the cost of optical fiber manufacturing, repair and maintenance has been greatly reduced.

One of the most critical problems is that the problem of network packet loss has been well solved, which can only be solved after more than ten years, because it is a technical difficulty that requires a lot of manpower to study and develop after having a relevant mathematical model.

However, with Alex's involvement, this kind of problem that does not involve the level of craftsmanship is not a problem at all. He used the mental space, in which he copied a team of puppets and studied them day and night. It quickly went from theory to practice, and the network protocol problem was completely solved.

The address length of this protocol is 128 bits, and the address space is increased by 2 to the 96th power. IT HAS A FLEXIBLE IP HEADER FORMAT THAT REPLACES THE IPV1 VARIABLE-LENGTH OPTION FIELD WITH A SERIES OF FIXED-FORMAT EXTENDED HEADERS. , which was the original network protocol originally used by the Ark.

Most critically, the improved security, authentication and privacy are key features of the new network protocol.

"After we use the latest Internet protocol provided by Alex, we can send information from Earth to Mars and back without packet loss, so that the highly secure protocol function can fully meet the needs of the military," said Ark Company Moore excitedly. ”

In response to the urgent need for security performance, the military repeatedly urged the Ark Corporation and the Optical Giant to build a "fiber optic network" for them to ensure that US military secrets would not be stolen by the Soviet Union.

They were so anxious that in order to speed up the progress of the project, the Pentagon once again allocated them a huge amount of money. The money was quickly passed by Congress, and few people even objected. After all, this is a matter of state secrets and homeland security, and it has to spend so much money.

"Another $30 million?"

This surprised Alex, who had never imagined that he would make so much money so easily, which was $30 million in the '60s. According to the price calculation, it is equivalent to more than 300 million in the 21st century, no wonder people say that the government's money is easy to make, it turns out that this is true.

There was a rumor that the U.S. government had allocated more than $1 billion to arms companies to research a new type of weapon, but the money ran out, and the companies there said that the money was not enough and needed to continue to allocate funds, so the government continued to invest hundreds of millions.

Nearly $3 billion was spent, and the final conclusion was that the current level of technology could not achieve that kind of superweapon. The U.S. government has been cheated of so much money in vain, and it has not been furious and clamoring for compensation from the arms company, and it still has business dealings with the other party.

It can be seen how easy the government and the military have to get money, no wonder some companies look down on the civilian market once they get on this line. Many arms companies are unheard of to ordinary people, because they are not doing ordinary business.

After the Ark Company and the Light Giant received the new grant, they immediately built the optical fiber line to protect the military's information security. Not only that, but after the Congress saw that this high-tech thing was so powerful, they also quickly proposed to build a special fiber optic cable line for the congressmen.

The earmarked appropriation was passed quickly, and the members of Congress would never oppose themselves to themselves, and this kind of thing would be beneficial to all members of Congress. They are so afraid of their privacy that they are wiretapped.

It's no wonder they were scared, the United States in the 60s was an era of insecurity. In addition to investigating crimes, the FBI also often monitors well-known people in the public, such as Martin Luther King, Chaplin and others, who are not only threatened by surveillance, but also senior government officials and members of Congress.

Otherwise, how could Director Hoover have been re-elected in the first place. It's because he has too many secrets in his hands, and although he has now been killed by Alex in advance, the FBI still exists.

With the support of policies and funds, the Ark Company and the Light Giant have developed rapidly, and the scale of the company has swelled like a balloon.

AT&T knew that the general trend on its side was gone, so it wanted to compromise with the Ark Company, even if it was possible to drink soup after it. This is the case in the world of capital, before this moment, for the sake of profit, it is like an enemy who does not share the sky, and the next moment it is still for profit, and it can immediately become like a brother.

"Cooperation?"

When Alex received AT&T's message of interest, he fell into thought. He is not afraid of Bell, everyone is also a superior person, and the status relationship is equal. Even if he refuses AT&T's request, Bell will not and will not be able to stand up for it.

It's just that eating alone is too dangerous. Even if the Rockefeller consortium has joined him on his side, it will be difficult to divide up such a big piece of fat as the Internet. What's more, Alex's main purpose is not to make money to do this thing, but to make this world more colorful, so he can come up with so many new techniques.

Since someone is willing to share part of the work, then he is also very happy. Of course, the premise is that the dominant power must not be let go, as long as the Internet is still in his hands, he is not afraid of others following him to make money and make a fortune.

In addition, the cost of optical fiber networks is too high, and the military can also ignore the cost. If you are civilian, hehe, I don't know where the money for this line comes from. If AT&T joins, then the main trunk will be optical fiber, and the branches will be used with telephone lines, and the cost savings will be enough to go to the moon.

After thinking about the stakes, Alex nodded and agreed that Ark and AT&T would work together to build a civilian network. The status of this cooperation is completely different, it is mainly based on the Ark Company, and AT&T is just working on the side.

After the Ark Company was busy here, there was good news from DreamWorks over there: ""Red Dawn" won the Best Director and Best Actor nomination awards! ”

Both of these are related to Alex, and for the first time in history, someone has been nominated for Best Screenplay, Best Director and Best Lead Actor at the same time. As soon as the news came out, it immediately caused a sensation in the entertainment industry. (To be continued......)